Improvement in chimney-sweeping apparatus



PATENT EEIGE.

JOHN M. OURLESS, OF CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHIMNEV-SWEEPING APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 148,184, dated Mar-ch 3, 1674; application filed July 21,1873.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, -JoHN M. CURLESS, of Cedar Rapids, in the county of Linn and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Ohimney-SweepingApparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawing, in Which- The drawing, Figure l, illustrates a perspective view of my improved chimney-sweeping apparatus, and Fig. 2 an end View thereof.

rIhe nature of this invention consists of a receptacle or box, having -its back elongated or extended in an upward direction, which elongation or extension is supplied with parallel plates or a socket to receive a brush or brushes secured therein in any known way, and an aperture or other means to permit of the attachment of suitable means for manipulating the apparatus.

To enable others to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

In the drawing hereto annexed, A refers to a receptacle for receiving the soot as it is brushed from the chimney, and which has its back extended upward a suitable distance, as shown at a, to enable the brush or brushes to be disposed above the entrance of the receptacle or box. An opening or aperture is punched or otherwise made in the extension a of the back of the receptacle to permit of the attachment thereto of a rod or other suitable means for lifting and lowering the same in the chimallow the said brushes or brush to overhang the entrance of the latter.

By this arrangement the soot taken by the brushes from the chimney will be caught by the receptacle.

I am aware that receptacles have been adapted to brushes in various ways to catch dirt, &c., as, for example, in sweeping ma chines, and I therefore .do not lay claim, broadly, to the combination of these parts; but

Having thus described, my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, the chimney-sweeping apparatus herein shown and described, consisting of the receptacle A a., and the brushes B B, arranged to project horizontally over the top of the receptacle, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 28th day of June, 1873, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN M. OURLESS.

NVitnesses:

J AMES J. CHILD, J. G. ANDERSON. 

